SOLD Pipes, Cigar Box, Opium Pouch, Antique Trompe l'Oeil Style Oil on Canvas Still Life envelope frame " "Drains and Canals

" "Drains and Canals

cast iron mechanical banks of black and white bulldogs in just this pose

with all of its limbs well attached

and who often worked in this type of stone

but dreams of a basket of freshly picked strawberries never cease

SOLD Pipes, Cigar Box, Opium Pouch, Antique Trompe l'Oeil Style Oil on Canvas Still Life envelope frame " "Drains and CanalsI've got a particular penchant for paintings of pipes that I think is grounded with Magritte. This trompe l'oeil style oil on canvas is not tightly painted enough to fool anyone, which perhaps makes it especially Magritte ian! I take that for an opium pouch at right, with what I presume is meant to be yellow silk at top and then a red tie, and then a couple of cigars kind of awkwardly poking out from inside the box? And a corn cob pipe at near left,